Re: [Harp-L] Country Tuning

["16:23" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Smo-Joe
I really appreciate the comments. 
I'm going to work on hitting the correct note on "zy"   and lock it in. 
Great tip and good stuff you wrote. 

Just a side comment, somewhere along the line the pitch was shifted on this video.   I noticed it after hitting the publish button when Todd Parrot brought it up. 



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> On Dec 26, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> Greg, on your second playing on the word crazy, (the 'zy' syllable), you aren't getting the bend.
> You need a sharp there.  
> I loved your video and it was spot on. I came up with raising the 5 draw back in 1960, and used it 
> 2 decades before Charley. Why? For doo-wop, dance music, jazz, and dixieland.
> 
> I always held the feeling that tunes have certain notes..sometimes only one, sometimes more, which
> MUST be hit or you loose the 'flavour' of the tune. And I used to use 2 or more harps on a tune until I 
> came up with 'my' doo-wop tuning. Because if one cannot hit these 'critical' notes, one shouldn't play
> the tune.  
> 
> Previously one would use 2 harps (for example a D crossed and an A straight) for Londonderry Aire (Oh Danny Boy), and 4
> harps if you modulated . Like a D crossed, A straight, Eb crossed, and a Bb straight. 
> With my system, you only need 1 harp (a D crossed), (or 2 if you modulated..like a D & Eb)). Recently heard a tune done by a 
> rather well known name. 'Walkin after midnight'. In the 'weeping willow' phrase, he was hitting the 
> wrong note. It was a natural, and it should have been a slur/bend flat. It was like my left arm. It was't right, and it wasn't fair. lol.
> 
> My video 'Georgia' is an example of correct 'critical' notes.     
> 
> smokey joe
> 
>> On Dec 23, 2014, at 7:20 PM, Greg Jones wrote:
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>> Short video on Country Tuning
>> I play the classic country song Crazy in key of (G) using a (C) Session
>> Steel in standard tuning using OB for the major 7th and then using a (C)
>> Session Steel that is country tuned.
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehV5dR0iZak
>> 
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